4Prescribed areas

#### 4 Prescribed areas (1) The areas in the Northern Territory covered by subsection (2) are prescribed areas. (2) The areas are: (a) an area covered by paragraph (a) of the definition of Aboriginal land in subsection 3(1) of the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976; and (b) any roads, rivers, streams, estuaries or other areas that: (i) are expressly excluded under Schedule 1 to that Act; or (ii) are excluded from grants under that Act because of subsection 12(3) or (3A) of that Act; and (c) land granted to an association under subsection 46(1A) of the Lands Acquisition Act of the Northern Territory (including that land as held by a successor to an association); and (d) each area in the Northern Territory identified in a declaration under subsection (3). (3) The Commonwealth Minister may declare that areas in the Northern Territory known as town camps that are identified in the declaration are prescribed areas for the purposes of paragraph (2)(d). (4) The Commonwealth Minister may declare that: (a) an area in the Northern Territory that would otherwise be covered by subsection (2) is not a prescribed area; or (b) an area in the Northern Territory that is not covered by subsection (2) is a prescribed area. (5) A declaration under subsection (3) or (4) is a legislative instrument.